Remote Position
Fintech Software Engineer
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Job Description:
- Own the architecture for a significant component or collection of services
- Develop and maintain financial software solutions focused on payment systems, transaction processing, and financial-service integration
- Design and build scalable, secure, efficient APIs for customer-facing and internal financial services
- Develop distributed backend systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and security
- Work with product, design, and operations teams in an Agile environment
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using AWS CloudWatch and other tools
- Monitor system performance and resource utilization
- Respond to incidents, diagnose issues, and perform post-mortem analyses
- Design and implement integrations with third-party financial services and payment gateways, including ACH, credit-card processing, and digital wallets
- Ensure code quality through automated testing, peer reviews, and continuous integration
- Champion coding standards and best practices
- Ensure compliance with security policies and standards such as PCI-DSS
- Translate complex requirements into implementation plans and lead product improvements
- Develop strategic software solutions addressing customer needs and seamless financial-service experiences
- Support broader engineering initiatives and perform additional duties as requested
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of software development experience focused on financial technology and payments
- Experience building scalable, secure software solutions and APIs for high-transaction systems
- Strong programming proficiency in Node.js, TypeScript, or similar languages
- Experience designing and implementing APIs, backend systems, and microservices architectures
- Familiarity with cloud services; AWS experience preferred
- Understanding of software security, encryption, and fintech compliance standards such as PCI-DSS and SOC2
- Understanding of fintech ecosystems, including ACH, payment gateways, and real-time transaction processing
- Experience working in fast-paced startup environments is a plus
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision
- Ability to meet the physical requirements of a primarily sedentary role, including sitting, standing, walking, using hands, reaching, and close vision
Benefits:
- Flexible and fully remote work setup
- Ability to balance professional and personal life
- Opportunity to contribute to an exciting growth journey
- Opportunity to drive and create impactful work in a small, agile team